In her July/August cover story, Anne-Marie Slaughter describes her own experience
of stepping down from a high-level State Department position to teach at Princeton and
spend more time with her children. In the process, she came to an uncomfortable realization:
No matter what well-meaning feminists might say, women really can't have it all. "Not today,"
she writes, "not with the way America's economy and society are currently structured."

Have women been buying into a myth for the past 40 years? Or has the next generation simply
lost touch with the ideals of feminism? How would gender equality look in a perfect world?
We asked Atlantic writers from a range of professional backgrounds and family situations to
comment on our cover story — and then to participate in a broader conversation with Slaughter
and each other.